Each year, Arbor week endeavours to help increase public awareness of just a few of the 2000 indigenous tree species in South Africa by celebrating two specific trees, one common and one rare species. This year Arbor week highlights the rare Parsley tree (...

The famous 5 day Giant’s Cup Hiking Trail can be started from Sani Lodge Backpackers and selfcatering cottages. Please book the trail directly with KZN Wildlife well in advance as the trail is popular. You will sleep in huts along the way. The average day is...

The Giant’s Cup Trail Run 22 and 23 May 2015 is a 2-day stage race, set over the 5-day Giant’s Cup Hiking Trail, set in the Maloti Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site in the Southern Drakensberg. The race starts from the Sani Pass Hotel just 1kilometre from Sani...

The SANI DRAGON is a new, 2-day MTB stage race on the 25th and 26th of September 2015. The two day event begins only 9 kilometres from Sani Lodge Backpackers on the Sani Pass road. We offer a wide range of accommodation to suit different budgets and tastes for...

FIRST SOME HISTORY OF THE BUILDING The Giant’s Cup Cafe and Crafts was originally started in August 1997 by Simone and Russell. The building was originally the workshop of Mokhotlong Mountain Transport and the garage part was named Giant’s Cup Motors...

On Tuesday 24 February, Russell drove up Sani Pass into Lesotho to deliver 70 blankets to shepherds . The day began with the shepherds coming down from the surrounding mountains where they tend their flocks of sheep during the summer months and assembling at the local...

Russell and Simone organised for an edutainer to be donated to KwaPitela School in November 2014. The edutainer has since been stocked with books donated by STEPP. One of the teachers still needs to go on a Librarian learnership course held by the NGO Vukuzakhe in...

Simone decided to start herb gardens as an alternative way for guests to spice up their cooking. So far the herbs available to guests include ; basil, rosemary, sage, thyme, marjoram, mint, garlic chives, chilli, lemon balm, fennel, pineapple sage. The herbs are grown...

Russell and Simone have been growing organic vegetables and herbs for many years. The setbacks have been innumerable; cutworm, snails, slugs, bean foliage eating beetles, baboons, early frost. By far the worst offender was hail and there has been a good deal of that...

ART GALLERY Simone stocks the Giant’s Cup Crafts shop at the Giant’s Cup Cafe, just 50 metres from Sani Lodge Backpackers, with novel crafts made by mostly small businesses and single entrepreneurs. The latest addition to the shop and restaurant are...